Vicious/Meia: Face off!

[Bean Bandit]

The response Meia got was quite faint, but the comm DID go active.

[Rezantis]

"Spike, can you drop me from your tow cable?"  Meia paused a moment.  "I need to see if my power plant can stand up to some maneuvering, and I really need to check that dead fighter - she's one of mine."

[Bean Bandit]

"All right." As he spoke the two cable unlatched with a dull thump, and Meia was floating freely again. "You need me to wait?"

[Rezantis]

"Could you?  Even if I can maneuver . . . if she's alive in there, she's got no life support."

Not waiting for a response, Meia gave the two globes some forwards and backwards force respectively, and darted her dread towards the derelict with the best accelleration and sharpest turn she could manage.

OOC: IE, how sluggish is it?  >_>

[Bean Bandit]

"Make it quick." Spike replied shortly. "I'm in a hurry."

The dread responded almost as though it were at full power. The sluggishness wasn't noticable at all, and the handling was still excellent, but an ever so slight lag durring acceleration hinted at troubles during the highest speeds...

[Rezantis]

Approaching the dead-in-space dread, Rez/Meia/Whoever switched back to the comm channel to the suit . . .

"Unidentified dread, this is Meia, do you hear me?"

[Bean Bandit]

*Bzzt* "Meia? You're alive?" *crackle*

The speaker was too faint to be identified, however.

[Rezantis]

"I'm mostly fine, but you really don't look so good.  How's your life support in there?"

Meia dragged an inexperienced eye over the damage to Barnette's (yes, Barnette, I recognized her dread earlier, so I can recognize it now) dread and, well, tried to see just how horrible it was.

[Bean Bandit]

Barnette sighed. "It's actually not damaged...I turned it down to fifty percent to boost comm power...our propulsion is completely destroyed."

To Meia's eye, the superficial damage was light, consisiting of a few missing plates, and slightly warped fuselage, though the measure of internal damage was more difficult to gauge.

[Rezantis]

Meia winced

"That's the one thing you don't want to lose.  Unsalvagable?"

[Bean Bandit]

"No, but Parfait will need a few spare parts..." Barnette opined, humming. "And a LOT of work. "

[Rezantis]

"One second."

Cutting the comm channel, Meia took a moment to swear - Shit! - before realizing belatedly that her comm channel to Spike was still open.

"Ah . . . Spike?  Can you give Barnette here a tow?  My engines are iffy, but I should be fine.  Hers, though, are shot to bits . . . and I don't have towing capabilities on this thing."  Meia crossed her fingers.

[Bean Bandit]

The smirk in voice was audible. "I'll take her to Callisto." he agreed. After that, you're on your own."

[Rezantis]

"Appreciate it."  Meia's voice paused.  "But, I still need to find Vicious . . ."

[Bean Bandit]

"You can have him when I'm done with him." Spike's voice was no longer lazy, and carried a trace of cold steel that warned Meia not to argue.